Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"To encourage such study is clearly a valuable undertaking for any educational institution which desires to serve as completely as possible the community of which it is a part," stated the faculty committee report. The plan should serve not only undergraduates, "but also graduates and properly qualified members of the...
In the spring of 1833, Peter Pindar Pease of Vermont joggled west in an ox-cart with his wife and five children to become the first settler in Oberlin, Ohio, where a group of missionaries to the Choctaws had staked out 500 acres for a town and college. The town...
At the Carnegie Institution's seismograph station on Mt. Wilson in California, Dr. Hugo Benioff has built recorders which work by electromagnetism. The weight is a magnet hung so that its poles are a tiny fraction of an inch from the armature. When an earth tremor twitches the armature...
During the Chalk Age (60 to 150 million years ago) the air must have swarmed with all kinds of insects-but for some mysterious reason fossil evidence of Chalk Age bugs is rare almost to the point of nonexistence. Smithsonian Institution scientists were therefore delighted to receive last week two...
To Sears' precise General Wood and Chairman Lessing Julius Rosenwald the social responsibilities of a great mercantile institution must be practiced as well as preached. Two-thirds of General Wood's letter to stockholders was devoted to outlining responsibilities: 1) to the public; 2) to employes (48,200...